Contos de rios: memórias sobre as águas e o ensino de História em Santa Izabel do Pará

Abstract

This study approaches the environmental perspective with emphasis on rivers in history classes. It aims to analyze the students' perception of the relationship between the Izabelense, Jordão and Caraparu rivers and the history of Santa Izabel do Pará, following the theoretical basis proposed by environmental history. Therefore we use oral history as a methodology to produce the izabelenses environmental memories from the speeches of the old residents, and through these, the students get to know the uses, relationships and social practices experienced between the subjects and the rivers, at the same time in which they analyzed the existing works on the history of the city, so that they understood what these authors said about rivers and nature or if they did not speak about them. So, as a product of this dissertation, was made the e-book Rivers' tales: izabelenses stories, in which the students in their writing and illustration of the stories used the environmental memories collected with the help of the information present in the works to point out the spaces they considered significant for the history of the place and thus write their texts that present new narratives about Santa Izabel do Pará, now including the rivers. With that, the students reflected on the environmental issues and crises existing in the place, leading the production of knowledge and, with the domain of this, developed their environmental awareness, being critical of the problems of the present in relation to water and rivers, being able to exercise the citizenship based on the issues reflected in their history classes.